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Feynman Lectures Free Online Edition

  • 04-09-2014 3:54am
    #1
    slade_x
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    http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/
    Caltech and The Feynman Lectures Website are pleased to present this online edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Now, anyone with internet access and a web browser can enjoy reading a high quality up-to-date copy of Feynman's legendary lectures.

    However, we want to be clear that this edition is only free to read online, and this posting does not transfer any right to download all or any portion of The Feynman Lectures on Physics for any purpose.


Comments

  • #2
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Fair cool.


  • #3
    sponsoredwalk
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    I don't know about you guys, but I didn't get anything out of the Feynman lectures, just a waste of time... When you've got all of Landau sitting right there (just read those reviews!) I just don't understand it.

    Well I liked a section on retarded EM fields but it was nothing special & it's in MTW with forms, meh...


  • #4
    ZorbaTehZ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,149 ✭✭✭ZorbaTehZ


    sponsoredwalk wrote: »
    I don't know about you guys, but I didn't get anything out of the Feynman lectures.

    There is merit to some of the content there, I especially like vol. 2 on electrodynamics, but I partially agree - I think that this series is very much overrated, and I think in general there are better textbooks available, his approach to quantum mechanics in vol. 3 I found rather bizarre.


  • #5
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    I'm eh, mixed. First off, I haven't really used them. Read bits here and there. Feynman is sort of a demi-god in science. He was undoubtedly a great teacher and physicist. But his idolisation is a little OTT at times imo. That said it's a free education resource. Can't ever complain about free resources. Especially one that's recognise as being reputable. It's not like one of those free physics textbooks that are full of mystical elements. :p


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